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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 1-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?
(a) Small acts of love and kindness performed for others.
(b) Helping others focus on the important aspects of life.
(c) The positive memories created for others.
(d) Gestures of love and respect from others.

2. Besides in his heart and mind, where does the speaker say he felt "sensations sweet" when he remembered the landscape (28)?
(a) In his bones.
(b) In his throat.
(c) In his blood.
(d) In his stomach.

3. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?
(a) Passing from one phase of matter into another.
(b) Transcendent experience.
(c) To purify or refine.
(d) Complete and total.

4. Lines 18 and 19, "Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!/ With some uncertain notice, as might seem," contain which two techniques?
(a) Sibilance, litotes.
(b) Litotes, anaphora.
(c) Assonance, sibilance.
(d) Anaphora, assonance.

5. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?
(a) "Secluded."
(b) "Dim."
(c) "Lonely."
(d) "Darkened."

Short Answer Questions

1. What paradox does the speaker introduce at the end of the second verse paragraph?

2. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 19 mention of "some uncertain notice"?

3. What is the speaker referring to with the phrase "These beauteous forms" (line 23)?

4. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?

5. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?

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